A day at the beach was calling, so XLY, radio dog and myself packed up and headed to Cayton Bay on the East Coast.
Quick look at the map and if I set the radio up on the cliff top it would be a 2’fer but I would rather be on the beach.
We headed down the cliffs and radio dog got very excited about the beach and the tennis ball he saw I had put in my pocket. Once on the beach, the zoomies kicked in as he was left off the leash.
We found a nice spot to set up. XLY went to find some hot drinks as tried to put the mast and antenna up whilst dog ran around alike a loon!
With the radio set up and spot on http://pota.app it did not take me long to get the 10 QSO’s to activate and 2 extra. In fact was done in 10 mins! This meant I could try and get the kite up.
The kite did not go up 🙁 The wind was just too swirly to hold the kite up so no luck there.
So I packed up and we had a nice walk on the beach before heading to Scarborough for fish and chips for lunch.
Working Conditions
- Icom IC-705
- 5 watts
- Sotabeams Tactical Mini 6m Mast
- Sotabeams linked dipole 20-30-40
- Polo Ham2K
Operation Totals
- 6 DXCC entities
- 1 band and 1 mode
- 40m – 12 SSB
- 1 Park to Park
